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More than 700,000 directly referred community radiology diagnostic scans have been completed since the launch of the General Practitioner Access to

GP at Woodview Family Doctors in Glanmire and medical director of the Irish College of General Practitioners, Dr Diarmuid Quinlan, said the scheme ...

University Hospital Limerick, which serves North Tipp, has failed to meet a number of compliancy standards. Insufficient staffing levels, ineffective patient flow and not enough beds are among the problems facing University Hospital Limerick. A HIQA inspection of the hospital’s emergency department found the facility failed to meet 3 of the 4 key compliance standards, […]

As covid pressures have eased, cancer referrals have bounced back. nearly 2.7 million people have been referred for cancer care in the past year. thats an increase of 16% on pre—pandemic levels. but while there has been progress, around 30,000 people are still waiting to start treatment, a legacy of the pandemic. we know the pandemic has disrupted cancer care, but the nhs is working absolutely as hard as we can and going as fast as we can to recover the backlogs that have been created. nobody ...

On pre—pandemic levels. but while there has been progress, around 30,000 people are still waiting to start treatment, a legacy of the pandemic. we know the pandemic has disrupted cancer care, but the nhs is working absolutely as hard as we can and going as fast as we can to recover the backlogs that have been created. nobody in the nhs wants to see potential cancer patients not being treated. thats why we are expanding community diagnostics, thats why were ensuring that we get through as many ...

As we can to recover the backlogs that have been created. nobody in the nhs wants to see potential cancer patients not being treated. thats why were expanding community diagnostics, thats why were ensuring that we get through as many treatment cases as we possibly can. 0ne—stop shops for tests, mobile clinics and telephone hotlines have been set up to work through the backlog. but a shortage of qualified and trained cancer specialists and radiologists who can interpret scans remains a big stum...

Focused on — all these issues... 0k. what we are focused on is community diagnostics. i understand that. when you are not going to answer that question. one of your mps did defect yesterday. i want to ask if you knew that was coming, and if you are worried others will do the same. i appreciate your desire to take the conversation back to that issue. i think the number one priority for government, for me personally, is looking at the state of our country as we come out of covid, we hope. we hop...